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Digital Storytelling – Ron Nordstrom, Beautiful Plains S.D.
Storytelling using electronic devices.
Used for Activating and Applying strategies, sometimes Acquiring strategies.

1. Activating – Van Gogh
2. Acquiring - Life after death by PowerPoint
3. Applying- Oh Canada

Outcomes of storytelling? Convey an effective message appropriate to the audience.
Assessment of storytelling? Assess the outcomes, not the technology.
Did it get the message across? Was it appropriate for the intended audience? What is the quality of the sound? Are the pictures used effective?

Audio Storytelling

1. Audacity - Easy to use free audio editing software. Download here.
2. Audacity installation instructions (Word)
3. Using Audio in the Curriculum (Word)
4. Sample Audio Scripts - Radio Ads (Word)
5. Listening and Speaking in ELA (Word)
6. Sound Dogs Sound Effects Library
7. Freeplay Music -Royalty free music
8. Soundzabounds - Royalty free music for schools

Photostory and Storytelling

1. Digital Storytelling Ideas (Word) (.pdf)
2. Digital Storytelling Links (Word) (.pdf)
3. Photostory Download Here
4. Photofiltre - Free image editing software. Download here.
5. Photofiltre Tips (Word)
6. Taking Better Pictures (.ppt)
7. Samples
   1. Flashdance (local drive)
   2. Churchill (local drive)
   3. Goldilocks (local drive)

Storytelling with Comics

1. Comic Life is now available for Windows. (originally Mac only) Download trial version here. Good for 40 days, then you must buy.
2. Hatchet Sample (.pdf)
3. Ideas for Comic Life (.pdf)
4. Great Moments in the 20th Century (.pdf)
5. Ideas for Comic Life (Word)
6. Be Funky – Great place to change your photos to look like cartoons

Online Scrapbooking

1. Sample 1 - Autobiography
2. Sample 2 - Geography of Canada
3. Sample 3 - Path of blood in the body
4. Ideas for Scrapbooking
5. Mixbook - create and share an online book. Order print copies. Sign up for free account.
6. Blurb.com - Download software to create a photo and text book. Order print copies.
7. Picaboo - Download software to create a book. Order print copies.
8. Photoinpress.ca - Download software to make your own photobook and order inexpensive copies
9. Scrapblog - Online scrapbook you can share or send to your friends.
10. escrapbooking - E stands for educational, experiential, engaging, expressions. Find all the ways to engage students with different kinds of electronic scrapbooking tools.
11. Shutterfly - Create books, cards, calendars, etc.
12. My Publisher - Download software then creat books and other items.
13. Smilebox - Online scrapbook you can blog, email or print.